Caryl Chessman v. Harley O. Teets, Warden, California State Prison, San Quentin, California

DENMAN, Chief Judge.

Chessman appeals from an order of the District Court denying his application for a writ of habeas corpus. The record 1 shows that among convictions on seventeen counts, he was convicted on two counts of an information charging him with the kidnapping of two young women for the purpose of robbery with bodily harm on which the jury found he should suffer the death penalty. The kidnappings and robberies were accompanied by acts of sexual perversion which Chessman compelled the women to commit. The record of his trial shows that on a third charge of kidnapping and infliction…